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The Four-Thirds Solution

Solving the Child-Care Crisis in America Today

By: Jacqueline Salmon, Stanley I Greenspan

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Paperback | 17 October 2002 | Edition Number 1

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Long recognized for his brilliant insights into the emotional and intellectual development of infants and young children, Dr. Stanley Greenspan argues that parents, not teachers or caregivers, can most effectively encourage this development. In order for parents to do this, however, society must first face an unrecognized dilemma of major proportions. While Dr. Greenspan's research demonstrates that children in the first few years of life need intense one-to-one nurturing to develop their full cognitive and emotional abilities, over 50 percent of families are relying on out-of-home care that, for the most part, does not provide such nurture. In order to resolve this dilemma, he offers a radical redefinition of family life. Without suggesting that either parent give up a career, he presents a wide variety of practical solutions that make children the top priority-and the equal responsibility-of both parents. He vividly describes "tag team" care, serial careers, other ways to balance at-home care and daycare, ways to make the new technologies that allow working at home a benefit for both adult and child, and the "four-thirds solution," in which both parents work two-thirds of the time.A Merloyd Lawrence Book

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Non-Fiction Family & Health Parenting: Advice & Issues Child Care & Upbringing Sociology & Anthropology Society & Culture Psychology

What's at Stake
Our Social Experiment	p. 3
We Are Asking too Much of Day-Care	p. 23
The Essential Experiences of Early Childhood	p. 55
Putting Children First
A Parent's Priority	p. 83
Six Families	p. 99
Trading Places	p. 99
Tag-Team Parents	p. 116
Divorced but Making It Work	p. 128
A Traditional Family Adapts	p. 139
Working at Home	p. 146
A Four-Thirds Solution	p. 165
Choosing Child Care	p. 181
Where Do we Go from Here?
Solutions for Families and Communities	p. 205
Improving Day Care	p. 219
Solutions for Corporations and Governments	p. 225
Notes	p. 237
Acknowledgments	p. 243
Index	p. 245
About the Authors	p. 259
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